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It's a Pyrkon weekend! Like every year there's a Pyrkon in Poznań, a great event which gathers all fantasy, science-fiction and comic book fans, something like Comic-con in San Diego, USA, but a little bit smaller. Like they say about their mission on their website:

 Comic-Con International: San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.

Unfortunately, I couldn't participate in it this year, but I'm going to next year. I just have to prepare my costume. A propos costumes, I've seen a lot of different and creative outfits this weekend, like: Sailor Moon and her friends: Sailors: Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury, some elves, hobbits, Darth Maul from Star Wars, and many many others. So I have to beat all of them next year to get the award for the best costume: 5000zł. Awesome, right?

Well, may, 8th I'm going to cinema for a marathon with the Avengers from 10 pm till about 6 am, I can't wait to watch it. I have a great seat and I hope there won't be any teen groups talking, throwing popcorn, laughing or kissing loudly, I hope there will be only devoted fans like me, who will appreciate the 3D technology, Iron Man, Winter Soldier and Hulk. There will be 3 movies: The Avengers, Captain America: Winter Soldier and The Avengers: Age of Ultron. So I have to be „sober” and fully concentrated to the end because the last movie is a premiere, and the other two I have already seen (they're great by the way), and I still have no idea how I'm gonna do this. I think I'm gonna take a lot of coffee and snacks, maybe some redbull drink or something like that.

By the way, when I mentionned Winter Soldier, it reminded me about a video on youtube featuring Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie:

Funny, right? I think it's the only funny ice bucket challenge vid I've watched.

"You have failed this city!"

Today I'm gonna write about "Arrow" - a TV series about a comic book superhero Green Arrow. (WARNING: Spoilers!!!)

My name is Oliver Queen. After five years on a hellish island, I have come home with only one goal: to save my city.

These are Arrow's words which open every episode.

Oliver Queen is a playboy billionaire (just like Bruce Wayne - Batman), he has his own company (like Bruce Wayne), he loves his city (like Bruce Wayne), but his perfect life is interrupted by an accident (which actually wasn't an accident), his dad dies (like Bruce's), but Oliver manages to escape to an island called Lian Yu (purgatory) (not like Bruce Wayne),

 where he meets Yao Fei, his first teacher,

 Slade Wilson (friend and enemy), Shado (friend, lover, Yao Fei's daughter) and many many other people. He spends there 5 years (well not exactly, because one day ARGUS hires him and he travels all around the world) until some fishermen notice him and take him to China, from where he came back home - Starling City. Of course everybody thinks he's dead, and when they find out he's not, they're not as happy as we could think. The only person who's truely happy for him is Thea, his younger sister. From now on Oliver decides to become someone else - Green Arrow, a hero or vigilante (basically like Batman) who uses bow and arrow to put a fear of God in criminals (Batman has his own special belt - who should know what I mean, knows it). Naturally he has a superhero indentification: "You have failed this city" and a cool costume - a green leather outfit.
The writers introduced some other characters from comicbook like Tommy Merlin, Laurel and Sarah's father det. Lance, Malcolm Merlyn (Magician), Moira Queen - Oliver's mother, Captain Boomerang, Barry Allen (Flash), Ra's Al Ghul, Nyssa Al Ghul and of course the members of team Arrow: Laurel Lance, Sarah Lance (both Black Canaries) and Roy Harper (Arsenal). But they also created some new characters like John Diggle ( a nod to the creator of the comic book) and Felicity Smoak who becomes a love interest for Oliver, she's an IT girl, at first she works for Oliver, then she becomes he's partner and mybe something else, especially after watching this video:

A trailer of first episodes of the third reason (including Ra's Al Ghul): 

And now a trailer for last 5 episodes of the third season:

And some pics:

Some scary scars after 5 years on Lian Yu

Some nice views for women;)

Deathstroke aka Slade Wilson

an authentic conversation of Oliver and Felicity

League of assassins (in Batman they're called League of Shadows)

from left: Laurel Lance, Slade Wilson, Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen, John Diggle, Thea Queen, Roy Harper

Slade's mask on the island, when I first saw it, I thought that nothing good could happen on this island

 

Felicity Smoak

I can't wait for the next episode (wednesday) because last episode ended not so well because of Thea's death, so now they will to resurrect her in Nanda Parbat's water. Well, she will come back to life, but she will change, like Robin in "Batman under the Red Hood". In general Arrow and Batman have a lot of common, they have the same enemies, Gotham is next to Starling City, so they should meet, but they won't because of the producers. That's why we won't see anymore Captain Boomerang in "Arrow" or Harley Quinn (an Easter egg in one of the episodes). Arrow knows only Flash, but he will meet the rest of the Justice League, well the character, but they hire another actor so it's still not cool. Arrow is awesome, especially when he tries to act like a normal human being, but he forgot how to do it, so that's why it's so funny sometimes and unpredictable.

"Gotham is mine!"

Welcome after Easter break!

Today I'm gonna write about "Gotham".

'Gotham" is a TV series which shows what happened before Batman came to the city. 

First episode presents Jim Gordon (a detective from homicide department), his fiancée Barbara, his partner - Harvey Bullock and one of the most important characters in the series - Bruce Wayne. 

They show the murder of Bruce's parents and detective Gordon tries to find the murderer.  

Of course in every episode there is a lot of easter eggs, which I love. I love finding future Batman's enemies - Gotham villains. So we have Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Scarecrow, we have a first version of poison which will create Bane (Viper-> Venom), Harvey Dent.

Harvey Dent

Viper

An awesome thing is the beginning of friendship between Bruce and Jim. And the complicated relationship between Bruce and Selena.

When I watched the first episode, I was terrified by the atmosphere of the Gotham City.

Imagine there's no hope. Cops are corrupted, two mobs try to destroy each other and rule the city, the mayor is corrupted, it's always dark, there are dozens dead bodies nobody cares about and than comes James Gordon. A little light of hope in the dark Gotham.

Perhaps the producers showed even Joker as a young Jerome, who killed his mother who worked in a circus.

 He was ruthless and laughed a little bit like Heath Ledger in "The Dark Kinght", but earlier there was an easter egg in one of previous episodes - a guy laughed a lot like Joker in Arkham Asylum, so maybe authors want us to guess and fight, or maybe they can't decide if they want to show Joker.

 I would forget! There was an episode entitled "The Red Hood", which was Joker's first nickname. But (warning: spoilers) tjey killed all of the "Red Hoods" so maybe it's a dead end.